GN&SR 480 Class

The Great Northern & Southern Railway (GN&SR) 480 Class 0-6-0T was a class of fourty-eight 0-6-0T type steam locomotive purchased for use on the various branchlines and suburban lines operated by the GN&SR. The class was also formed of locomotives of the same class that the GN&SR had inherited; all locomotives were of a standard design built by the Reginald Auden Locomotive Factory.

Shortly after the turn of the century, the GN&SR ordered eight locomotives of the "Proteus" Class in order to replace the 2-4-0s and 0-6-0Ts locomotives then being used on suburban services that were quickly approaching thirty years old. The new locomotives (№s 480 - 487) were initially used on Dean Park - Henworth and Denton - Briarwood serivces during the two year trial period that the 480 Class were to be used on passenger services. After the trial period, a further thirty-two locomotives were purchased over the following seven years, all locomotives were numbered in the range of №s 488 - 523; though there were gaps as numbers were filled with locomotives that had been purchased or inherited that were of the same general class of locomotive.

Of the new thirty-two locomotives, ten were fitted with condensing equipment in order to work on suburban trains in Knightsbury and eight were fitted with dual braking equipment for

West ()shire Local Railway №s 11 & 14 (GN&SR №s 492 & 493):
The West ()shire Local Railway was a railway serving the sparsely populated county of ()shire in the Etorean Midlands. Due to the distance between stations the company owned few tank engines and what few they did own tended to be larger 2-4-2 or 0-6-2 types due to their improved fuel capacity. Though the company did own a few smaller locomotives mostly used for shunting; of these were their №s 11 & 14 which were used as shunters 

C&MR №s 1 & 2 (GN&SR №s 517 & 518):
  The two locomotives owned by the Compton & Maidencourt Railway were inherited by the GN&SR following the takeover of the C&MR in 1913 after which they were renumbered as GN&SR №s 517 & 518 and were reclassified as part of the 480 Class of 0-6-0Ts due to them also being of Auden's "Proteus" Class. Of these two, №517 was one of four 480 class tank engines to be used as shunters in continental europe during the First World War, she returned with her classmates by the end of 1918 and was then absorbed into the ENR's stockbooks post nationalisation.

ENWR №s 24, 26, 29 & 30 (GN&SR №s 524 - 527):
  In 1913, the Etorean North Western Railway sold four of their Auden-built 0-6-0Ts to the GN&SR as part payment for fifteen wagons to the GN&SR's GN&SR Diag. V14 and thirty-five coaches of various designs. These four locomotives differed from the standard locomotives as they had stovepipe chimneys, a "wrap around" / stirling styled cab roof and a pair of permanantly-mounted oil lamps (one on each side of the smokebox). They retained all of their differences until nationalisation, after which their lamps were exchanged for lamp irons so that the ENR's Pattern 21 (P21) lamps could be used.